Pentagon officials say the work on the second wedge of the five-sided building will be done by the end of November, keeping the entire renovation project “on schedule and slightly under budget.” Renovation of Wedge 3 has started, which means that DOD employees in the second section of that wedge will move out by early 2006 at the latest. Officials also plan to shut down the Pentagon’s River Terrace. The entire project is a $1 billion effort to overhaul the interior of the 60-year-old building and predates the damage caused by the Sept. 11 terrorist hijacked airliner that plowed into an almost completed Wedge 1. That work had to be redone before continuing with the next phase. Officials expect to complete Wedge 3 by October 2007 and the entire project by December 2010.
The Air Force is leaning toward a less-sophisticated autonomous aircraft in the second increment of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the services chief futurist said. He also suggested that the next increment of CCA may be air-launched, a la the "Rapid Dragon" experiments conducted by the service in recent years.